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Thinking About Traveling to Crimea? Think Again.
Looking for adventure and planning a trip to Russian-occupied Crimea? The State Department has some advice for you: Don't go. According to the department, Americans on the peninsula have been detained for questioning and may be subject to violence...
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Fri, Mar 21 2014 3:24 PM
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Why Turkey Banned Twitter
"Democratic life demands sacrifice": Seven Turkish newspapers, each of which theoretically makes its own editorial decisions, decided to pluck that line from a speech by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last summer to use as their...
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Fri, Mar 21 2014 9:31 AM
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FP Passport
Morning Brief: EU Signs Agreement with Ukraine
EU Signs Agreement with Ukraine Top News : The European Union signed an agreement on closer ties with Ukraine. The deal--which was abandoned in November by former President Viktor Yanukovych, sparking widespread protests--codifies greater economic and...
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Fri, Mar 21 2014 5:43 AM
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FP Passport
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Datelines and Maps Are the Latest Casualties of Russia’s Crimea Invasion
Though the United States and the European Union refuse to recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin now firmly directs facts on the ground in the Black Sea peninsula. Crimeans are already receiving shiny new passports...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 4:07 PM
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FP Passport
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Russia
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Eastern Europe
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Sorry, Turkey: You're Not Getting Crimea Back
Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't the first time the country has occupied and annexed the Black Sea peninsula -- the first came in 1783. And according to a creative -- and ill-informed -- Turkish columnist , the legal framework for that centuries...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 3:59 PM
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FP Passport
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Russia
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Diplomacy
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Eastern Europe
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Turkey
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Ukraine
It Pays To Leave Russia
Crimeans may very well wish to be a part of the Russian Federation, but plenty of Russian citizens want out of it. The number of asylum seekers hailing from Russia quadrupled during 2013, reaching a record 39,800 individuals, according to a report released...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 3:42 PM
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FP Passport
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North America
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Russia
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Morning Brief: EU Mulls Additional Sanctions On Russia
EU Mulls Additional Sanctions On Russia Top news: The European Union on Thursday weighed additional sanctions against Moscow, after Russian troops overran a pair of military bases in Crimea and prompted the Ukrainian government to draw up plans to evacuate...
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Thu, Mar 20 2014 6:52 AM
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In Myanmar, Press Freedom is a Double-Edged Sword
It's one step forward, two steps back for Myanmar's beleaguered journalists. President Thein Sein ostensibly closed the book on five decades of media repression this week by enacting two new measures designed to replace the country's longstanding...
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Wed, Mar 19 2014 4:07 PM
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Morning Brief: Russian Militiamen Seize Ukrainian Navy Base
Russian Militiamen Seize Ukrainian Navy Base Top news: A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin formally annexed Crimea, pro-Russian militiamen stormed and seized the Sevastopol headquarters of the Ukrainian navy on the Crimean peninsula. A crowd...
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Wed, Mar 19 2014 6:29 AM
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Russia Sanctions Fail to Soothe Poland’s Frayed Nerves
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 By presenting a united front and slapping Russia with harsh sanctions, it was thought that the United States and Europe might in one fell swoop deter Vladimir Putin from seizing...
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Tue, Mar 18 2014 5:23 PM
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Morning Brief: Russia Begins Annexing Crimea as U.S. and EU Impose Sanctions
Russia Begins Annexing Crimea as U.S. and EU Impose Sanctions Top News: On Monday, a day after 97 percent of Russian-occupied Crimea reportedly voted to secede from Ukraine, Vladimir Putin signed an order "to approve the draft treaty between the...
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Tue, Mar 18 2014 4:46 AM
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Morning Brief: Crimea Votes to Secede from Ukraine
Crimea Votes to Secede from Ukraine Crimea: The majority of Crimea's residents voted to secede from Ukraine on Sunday, with 95 percent of voters supporting the measure with half of the votes counted. Russia will discuss a bill that would create a...
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Mon, Mar 17 2014 6:00 AM
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Think Crimea’s Referendum Looks Dirty? You Should Have Seen the Anschluss Plebiscite.
It was 1791, in the middle of the French revolution, when the good people of the picturesque papal town of Avignon (located in what is now southeastern France), found themselves facing a question. For centuries, Avignon had been under the authority of...
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Sun, Mar 16 2014 5:54 AM
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FP Passport
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Eastern Europe
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History
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Democracy
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Ukraine
Where Could Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Have Gone?
View Airfields in MH 370's potential range in a larger map As evidence mounts that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was deliberately directed off course by an experienced pilot, government and intelligence officials from Malaysia to the United States...
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Sat, Mar 15 2014 6:56 PM
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FP Passport
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Terrorism
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Disasters
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Southeast Asia
What Happened to MH370? A Look at the Latest Theories
It's a general rule of thumb ( Occam's razor , to be exact) that, when evaluating theories, the one with the fewest assumptions is most often correct. Wild and outlandish theories are almost always wrong -- except when they're not. But it's...
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Fri, Mar 14 2014 3:23 PM
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Southeast Asia
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